Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Polls are Open: Top 10 Web Hacks of 2007

Thank you to everyone who helped out with compiling the list of Web hacking techniques for the last year. It took a lot of time and effort scouring the Internet for all the new tricks and reading through the material to understand what was what. I did my best to sanitize the list, find the best references, and remove duplicates (probably still some left). I am confident though that the best of the best are in there to make a meaningful Top Ten for 2007.

There way the voting process works is each voter get 10 votes to distribute among their favorites. The suggested criteria is cleverness, severity, and overall impact. The polls will close on January 24, at which time the numbers will be tabulated and those with the most votes will rise to the top. With over 80 on the list, surpassing the number for 2006, competition is going to be fierce. GO VOTE!

Hey James, thanks for pointing it out. Like I mentioned in the post, in that big of a pool of links it was extremely hard to eliminate all the duplicates. Not to mention find everything. It would have taken me forever to figure out the root cause of each issue, so I just did the best I could with it and posted sooner rather than later. Should there be duplicates, I'll just add them together.

About Me

Jeremiah Grossman's career spans nearly 20 years and has lived a literal lifetime in computer security to become one of the industry's biggest names. He has received a number of industry awards, been publicly thanked by Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Facebook, and many others for his security research. Jeremiah has written hundreds of articles and white papers. As an industry veteran, he has been featured in hundreds of media outlets around the world. Jeremiah has been a guest speaker on six continents at hundreds of events including many top universities. All of this was after Jeremiah served as an information security officer at Yahoo!